Occupation: Poet Birth: March 26, 1859 Death: April 30, 1936
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind..
Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I..
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow ….
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck..
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the pri….
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a….
White in the moon the long road lies..
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride..
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he we….
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When t….
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes ….
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absol….
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went ….
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under..
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the wri….
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough..
Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures.….
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free..
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep y….
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of ….
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad..